The humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has said that there is a ''catastrophic situation'' in Libyan detention centers that it visited. Over the past nine months, it noted, 22 people have died from suspected tuberculosis and other diseases in two detention centers south of Tripoli.
75 migrants who were allowed to disembark in Tunisia after nearly three weeks on board the commercial ship Maridive 601 are being helped to return to their countries of origin. The migrants from Bangladesh, Egypt, Morocco and Sudan were rescued on May 31 off the coast of Libya but were only permitted to land in Tunisia on Tuesday.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has published a report "Including the Excluded" on the organization's work to provide medical care to migrants and refugees living at the occupied former Olympic village in Turin known as the ex-MOI. MSF said it allowed marginalized people to enjoy their "right to health."
Migrants locked in detention camps in Tripoli face increasing danger as the prospect of a drawn-out siege looms. Inconsistent responses from Europe to the crisis have left them little hope.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) used a "humanitarian mechanism" for the first time ever in Europe to vaccinate refugee children on the Greek islands. The procedure provides a vaccine against pneumonia at a reduced price, in this case nine euros per child, rather than the hundreds of dollars it can normally cost.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has published a report on the lack of food and alarming malnutrition in migrant detention centers in Libya, where children suffer especially badly. MSF calls upon Libyan authorities to, among other things, release all children under 18 and ensure their wellbeing.
Three years after the signing of the EU-Turkey deal, some 12,000 people are still holding out on the Greek islands' 'hotspots,' while thousands more live across the mainland in dire, unhealthy and dangerous conditions. Calling Greece a "dumping ground," Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has called on European leaders to take action to end the "harmful policy of containment."
Threats from armed groups operating between the borders of Mali and Niger have caused a new wave of displacement in the Tillabéry region of Niger, said Doctors Without Borders. It said more than 8,000 people have been forced to settle in improvised camps without access to clean water or sanitation facilities.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has denounced the deteriorating conditions in Libyan detention centers in Misrata and Kohms due to a 'sharp increase' in the number of people held, including pregnant women and children. The World Health Organization (WHO) reported violence and deaths related to fighting in Tripoli.
Aid organizations SOS Mediterranee and Doctors Without Borders (MSF) are being forced to end their life-saving Mediterranean rescue mission. MSF managing director Florian Westphal told DW the situation is "catastrophic."
The 94 passengers were rescued by a passing container ship last week as they were en route to Italy. After being returned to Libya they have refused to get off the ship.
Greek police stationed at the Lesvos facility are undergoing blood tests after two officers caught the disease.